Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasional admission of women might well have complicated to the point of chaos the problem of serving efficiently unprecedented numbers of Yardlings. But now that last-minute breakfast stampedes and 1 o'clock lunch hordes alike are handled with speed and dispatch, the union should be able to admit women guests, at least on Saturday nights, without too great a strain. The Houses, also operating well over normal capacity, feed women five times weekly. In addition, the Union management has found that one or two hundred diners more or less make little difference in planning a meal, and admits...
...fact was that seldom-performed Lakmé had been chosen this year to welcome 42-year-old Lily Pons back into the Met fold. She is still the most competent coloratura in the business, and the Met was ready to admit it, after trying to build up an unproved fledgling, 18-year-old Patrice Munsel while Lily flew off with her husband, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, on U.S.O. tours...
Boston's venerable Lowell Institute refused to admit its age. Last week it joined with six local colleges and universities to form the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council. The purpose: to broadcast learned lectures as a typically Boston bluestocking scheme of adult education. All seven Boston radio stations accepted the plan, which would be financed by stations and colleges, share & share alike. To the Lowell Institute it was one more opportunity to advance the cause of learning which had been the Institute's job for more than a century...
Main problem of Saturday night was in handling the large amount of drifting from one dance to another. "We expected the dances to be much more stable than they were," said one House dance committee chairman last night. "Where-as the ticket-takers could not admit any more couples at Lowell several times during the evening, at the Union the crowd never got much over two-thirds of the fire law capacity...
...grads trailed away from the Stadium late Saturday afternoon, even the hardest-bitten had to admit that the 1946 season was a proud one. Alumni have a way of taking traditional rivalries and inflating these matches until entire seasons are made, or broken, by the one Big Game. According to these standards, this fall's slate is very little better than that of other years when the Varsity fell before nearly every power in he east. The importance of this Yale game was accentuated by the resurgent interest of scattered sons of the University who followed the game by wire...